Omega Man meets Dawn of The Dead

Rating: Null/10 (28 June 2003)

I had to drag my husband to see this pionting out that it just had to be better than any of the other crap currently play and he walked out saying "Why doesn't somebody just re-make Omega Man?" I am torn on that subject since I hold great reverence for Chuck Heston's 70's stuff, including disaster movies. I am glad a Brit made this instead of an American since it had that hopeless look and fairly ordinary hero types. Brendan Gleeson is a great character actor vastly underused. I like the premise of the "rage" virus because it isn't too far of a stretch to imagine in American society. It isn't Dawn or Omega man but still a good genre movie that is also curiously apolitical ( except for the swipe at activist types) with enough tension to keep me interested but not so much over the top gore that gets boring. I won't give away the ending but nothing is clearly resolved. It irritates me that it is being pushed as a straight horror movie here in the states and I admire the director for at least trying to say something about the nature of what makes us human.